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The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes mask. But, above all, he was sensitive and looked out for those he loved.

— Jennifer Grant

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

— Joel Osteen

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.

— Tony Scott

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

— Sidney Poitier

My father was a man of few words.

— Ken Venturi

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

— David Ogden Stiers

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

— Ben Okri

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

— Johnny Cash

✗Opposing Perspectives

My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.

— Diana Quick

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

— Carrie Fisher

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

— Drew Barrymore